Genes Don’t Tell the Whole Story of Life

For more than 70 years, scientists have believed they’ve unraveled the mystery of life through genes. But is this really true?

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In 1953, two Nobel Prize laureates, James Watson and British physicist Francis Crick, unveiled the double helix structure of DNA, marking a monumental year in biomedicine and a significant milestone in modern molecular biology.

Time flew to the year 2000, when scientists decoded nearly 3 billion chemical building blocks of human DNA, at which time Bill Clinton announced, “Today, we are learning the language in which God created life.”